DEALS: EMC buys small companies; Symantec gets compliant

DEALS

WHO

WITH

WHAT

SCOOP

Hewlett-Packard

MySQL

Expand current partnership

HP becomes a reseller of MySQL's support, services, indemnification.

Overland Storage

Zetta Systems

Overland buys Zetta for $9M.

Overland, a tape backup player, expands into disk storage with Zetta.

Qualcomm

Flarion Technologies

Qualcomm buys Flarion for $600M.

Qualcomm gets OFDM wireless networking, which could be more reliable than current techniques.

Software AG

Casabac Technologies

Software AG buys Casabac for an undisclosed price.

The high-speed database maker gets web middleware.

Sun Microsystems

VMware

Sun to resell VMware's products

Sun wasn't up to speed on simple server virtualization; now they are.

Hewlett-Packard

Scitex Vision

HP buys Scitex Vision for $230M.

HP, rather than spinning out its printer group, invests in industrial-strength tech instead.

AMD

IBM

Expand current partnership

AMD gets chip interconnect research; Big Blue gets cash.

EMC

Rainfinity, Maranti Networks

EMC buys two small companies for undisclosed amounts.

EMC improves its storage virtualization and switching technologies.

Symantec

Sygate Technologies

Symantec buys Sygate.

Symantec gets compliance-checking applications for its data protection suite.

Intel

Sarvega

Intel buys Sarvega for an undisclosed amount.

Intel gets into XML routing technology.